Naeve is too cute! But what I really like is that you can also tell that he's powerful, serious about his work, and normally a relatively guarded man from just a bit of introduction. I'm really curious as to whether Sunny will be drawn to others in the house of Night the same way - is it elemental? Since Shadows like depths and darkness. And I'm just now realizing that we never found out what happened to Saint Tyris & her husband - they got kicked off the isles, but it's a bit sad that they didn't turn up during the Valor arc. She did so much for Sunny and then just disappeared... it's a bit unfortunate.

See this! I just gifted the story: Pizza

Dear Author, It's not nice to rip someone's heart out. I... don't know whether to hope that the cohort can actually change the past or not now. Mostly because it would be unbearably, unthinkably, cruel for the knife to remain in the present. And yet, a terrible, selfish, part of me hopes that it does -- since I miss him already.

Ionno... it's kind of fun to see Sunny on the other side of the 'stuff' he pulls... maybe I'm wrong :D but it's hard to believe that Noctis actually plans to surrender the knives (& Sunny).

That's what I'd assumed (& hoped) too, because otherwise it's really too terrible.

Or since the tapestry of fate is woven with threads of the past, present and future the Spell uses pieces of all three. If it's really doing so, that opens the door for the nightmares to be both illusory past, possible future, and present at the same time. After all, Fate is simply probability - this could be why matching matters so much in a nightmare.

Ah, perhaps I shouldn't... but I really like Noctis... unlike the young gladiator he somehow feels real. Perhaps because he seemed so hopeless staring into divine(?) flame caked in blood; or maybe because in only a few paragraphs he's so many different things -- sly, and kind, and egotistical and fearsome. Regardless, if there's not more of him, I'll be so sad

I'd completely forgotten about the undying armor so Sunny's "death" was pretty shocking!! That was a lot of fun, thank you. It's been a while since I've been so startled. :)

& just to add on here - although she knows that he's Mongrel, he doesn't know that she knows because she only -cutely- sent him the vid w/ "have you seen this yet?" and he took that at face value - probably because she sends him a fair number of weird messages (and then leaves him on read ;))

If Kai is going too, maybe the cohort will be able to function, since he spent the most time with Sunny when the cohort was at the forgotten shore. He also subtly supports Sunny & seems to genuinely care for and about him. I think Cassie joining bothers me because I feel that Sunny's "understanding" of her choice stems more from his lack of self worth than his capacity to genuinely forgive her. I'd feel more comfortable with this redemption arc for Cassie if Sunny had a chance to grow into his own skin a bit more.

No... just no. She's already brutally betrayed him once. Once is enough.

I wonder if it's close to Mordred for a reason --like Neph (Nephilim) & Cassie's (Cassandra) names were-- if so, this relationship doesn't bode well for Sunny. Maybe I'm just overthinking it tho...

What an amazing rollercoaster ride... I thought they might fight, but I also thought Sunny might just take her to the gate and shove her in after defeating her, or maybe that they'd both stop and just stay together. I never imagined it'd end like this. How incomparably brutal. I don't know what to hope - but I expect she'll survive.

I love the growth (and explanations of it) in this whole section. The idea that surviving isn't enough and Sunny's nascent desire for more than just "being alive" is so relatable.

Not distressing or foreboding at all <.< Sunny thinks about being all powerful & Cassie becomes worried and distressed - makes you wonder what exactly she's been seeing in those visions

Excellent characters and world building. I thought that I'd get bored with over 900 chapters, but the story just keeps getting better